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Happy Birthday!

This week marks the second anniversary of the opening of the new Elstree and Borehamwood Museum at 96 Shenley Road. It’s been a very busy two years. The Museum has had 10,500 visitors during this time, enjoying a range of temporary exhibitions from 100 Years of the Film Industry to World War I and most recently celebrating EastEnders’ 30th anniversary.

There is something for everyone at the Museum, there is always something new to discover and friendly volunteers to show you around.

In these past two years, the Museum has been involved in different aspects of the community, such as hosting History walks, talks and reaching out to schools and teachers. The ‘Going Down the Village’ free monthly reminiscence group has been hugely popular and offers a chance to share your memories and learn more about Elstree and Borehamwood.

Future exhibition plans include ‘Smile Please’ looking at the importance of Borehamwood in the development of photography and ‘Are you being served?’ charting the changes of shopping in the high street. ‘From village to Town: Celebrating a Century of Migration’, planned for 2017, encourages people to tell us about how they came to live in the area.

Moving to 96 has also provided the chance to modernise, with the permanent installation of two large screens at the rear of the museum, which provide visitors with scenes from films made in Borehamwood and interviews with prominent people in the film industry. If you would like to learn more about volunteering or becoming a Friend of the museum, please visit our website for more details. Thank you for all the support during the last two years and here’s to the next years at 96!

And can you help our photo archive and identify this occasion? And anyone in the photo?

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